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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 10:28 PM
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Why Hasn't Tim Griffin Been Indicted & Arrested?
Edited on Fri Jul-27-07 10:39 PM by Me.
So this is how our USAs behave these days. Break the very laws they were sworn to uphold.

Exclusive | Emails Detail RNC Voter Suppression in Five States
By Jason Leopold and Matt Renner

“Previously undisclosed documents detail how Republican operatives, with the knowledge of several White House officials, engaged in an illegal, racially-motivated effort to suppress tens of thousands of votes during the 2004 presidential campaign in a state where George W. Bush was trailing his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry.

The documents also contain details describing how Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign officials, and at least one individual who worked for White House political adviser Karl Rove, planned to stop minorities residing in Cuyahoga County from voting on election day.

The efforts to purge voters from registration rolls was spearheaded by Tim Griffin, a former Republican National Committee opposition researcher. Griffin recently resigned from his post as interim US attorney for Little Rock Arkansas. His predecessor, Bud Cummins, was forced out to make way for Griffin.

Another set of documents, 43 pages of emails, provided to Truthout by the PBS news program "NOW," contains blueprints for a massive effort undertaken by RNC operatives in 2004, to challenge the eligibility of voters expected to support Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in states such as Nevada, New Mexico, Florida and Pennsylvania.? Cont…

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072607A.shtml
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 10:30 PM
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1. What U.S. Attorney would do it?
Edited on Fri Jul-27-07 10:32 PM by TahitiNut
:shrug:

"Who shall watch the watchmen?" (Juvenal)

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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 10:32 PM
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2. Yep...and that is where we are.....maybe the state
that the crime occurred in can pursue it...it's not like the evidence isn't available...
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 10:41 PM
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3. That's The Rub
Tragically true that there is no one who will uphold our laws.
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